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* ''[[Dilbert]]'': During a brief period when Dilbert had a steady girlfriend, Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light barges in:
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'''Dilbert''': This is ''not'' my fault!<br />
'''Phil''': (points over his shoulder to a pair of flying pigs) Tell that to ''them''. }}
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* ''[[Finian's Rainbow]]'':
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'''Buzz''': Money don't grow on trees, you know.
''(The cliché explodes in his face in a shower of dollar bills which Sharon drops down from the tree.)'' }}
* In ''[[Dogma]]'' Jay propositions Bethany, and she turns him down. So he says, "What if the world was about to end?" and she agrees so he'll shut up. Fast forward all the way to the end of the movie, when Bartleby is close to unmaking reality, and Jay tries to make good on their "deal."
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** In the ''[[Cracked]]'' spoof, Roger's friend quips "[[Take That|It could be worse, he could of said the Padres!]]"
* ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]''
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* Justified in the Emily Rodda novel ''Pigs Might Fly''. The story is set in a parallel universe where a weather pattern called the Unlikely Events Factor, or UEF Storm, causes all manner of unlikely events, most commonly flying pigs. One occasion, the government foolishly attempted to stop these by tying pigs down, which meant the next UEF Storm was completely unanticipated and impossible to detect until it was over.
* Rachel invokes this to Marco in ''[[Animorphs]]'' once.
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* At the beginning of ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]'' story "Toomai of the Elephants", the title character is told by Petersen Sahib that he may one day go into all elephant stockades "when thou hast seen the elephants dance" -- although there is evidence that such events occur, no human has yet witnessed it, thus the statement equates to "never". Sure enough, though, by the end of the story, [[Captain Obvious|Little Toomai has seen the dance of the elephants]].
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* In one ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' episode, Chris points out that his father's lack of an appetite can only mean one thing. Cue shot of Satan shivering and rubbing his arms.
* It comes up in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''
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'''Leonard:''' Then I guess we would let him back on the app team and, while we're doing that, you could take an aerial tour of LA on your flying pig. }}
* An episode of ''Weird, True And Freaky'' on animals with tattoos included a photo of a piglet with wings inked on its sides.
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* And, [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chinese+Democracy%22+pigs+flying perhaps], what was the best example on music: ''[[Guns N' Roses|Chinese Democracy]]''. Some even suggested [http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2747/chinesedemocracygt2.jpg this cover].
* [[Tom Petty]], "It's Good to Be King":
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* The Foremen's [[List Song]] of things that will never happen, ''[http://www.royzimmerman.com/lyrics/best_froze.html Hell Froze Over Today]''.
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* This was invoked by [[The Nostalgia Critic]] for his review of the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' movie, when he found out that [[The Voiceless|Tom and Jerry]] ''talked'' in it.
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* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'': There's a crazy example in the first season finale, where the narrator is being carried away to fuel the narrator-powered ray gun, he begs to himself that it's all just a dream, then the flying pig appears and says it's real, or else he won't have wings. Cue [[Big No]].
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Lisa the Vegetarian", after an actual roast pig is already flying through the air [[It Makes Sense in Context|for perfectly good reasons]], we randomly cut to a completely unrelated scene where Burns is telling Smithers that he'll donate an enormous amount of money to charity when pigs fly, and they both have a good laugh...which fades as they look out the window.
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'''Burns:''' No, I'd still rather not. }}
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in the episode ''Monty Can't Buy Me Love'', where Mr. Burns and Smithers enter a book store:
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A moment of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fruitless]] waiting follows.<br />
'''Smithers:''' Uh, I don't see one, sir.<br />
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* Played with in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Crowing Pains", where Foghorn Leghorn gets halfway through the phrase when an ominous rumble of thunder and a lightning bolt appearing behind him forces him to reconsider.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Played with in "Spongeguard on Duty":
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* ''[[Garfield]]'': Consciously averted by Garfield: "Don't get me wrong, I love dogs. I'd never hurt a dog. And if I'm lying, may lightning... *pause* ... [[Genre Savvy|strike the dog next door]]." (Crack) "Yipe!"
* ''[[South Park]]'': [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] when Cartman is not hit by lightning when he says he has never done anything just for the money, although Butters does moves out of the way.
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